GIS and realtime data files for "Mobility and Congestion in Urban India" by Akbar, Couture, Duranton and Storeygard, American Economic Review, 2023

These datasets are inputs to the final replication data for: Akbar, Prottoy, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, and Adam Storeygard. 2023. "Mobility and Congestion in Urban India." American Economic Review, 113 (4): 1083-1111. They are all the result of real-time data collection or GIS processing with limited replicability, and as such are separated from truly raw data. The files include information for US and Indian cities from several sources: driving, transit and walking directions and other information on trips from Google Maps, night lights from NOAA, populations and locations from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects, and city boundaries and 38-meter sampling points from the Global Human Settlements (GHS-SMOD R2016A and GHS-BUILT 2016A). Code is at DOI: 10.3886/E182681V1